Chip Anderson

May 2009

Chip Anderson

Big Bandwidth Boost Coming Friday Afternoon

by Chip Anderson

Bandwidth is defined as the amount of data that one can "push" through an Internet connection at the same time.  The commercials on TV for home service equate bandwidth with "speed" and, while that is somewhat true, in the case of a high performance web site like StockCharts.com, bandwidth is really all about capacity. Over the years, our bandwidth has grown tremendously and each time it increased our customers benefited.  Initially, we had a 1.5 megabit T1 connection to the Internet.  We managed to fill that up pretty quickly.  So we added another (3.0 megabits), and Read More